“Predictive Art Bot” by Jérôme Saint-Clair, Maria Roszkowska, Nicolas Maigret, Baruch Gottlieb

What can we learn from the generative prose of a computer bot? With Predictive Art Bot, the collective Disnovation.org tackles the challenge of delegating the production of artistic concepts to a machine. The algorithm behind the project follows emerging trends among the most influential sources of information, then identifies and combines keywords from their headlines to generate new ones. The website is thus presented as a diptych: a media news feed unfolds on the left while the bot’s attempts are formulated on the right. The absurdity of the news often competes with the outlandish concepts generated. Through the Twitter account @predartbot, users can relay them across networks.The work parodies click bait that abounds on the web and the predictive strategies that have contaminated our imaginations. Predictive Art Bot leads us to reflect on the growing use of algorithms in all fields, especially in art. It also reveals that automation can be a vector of stimulation for human creativity.